The typical high school has changed in the last ten years. Wait, let me correct that! The typical high school student has changed in the last ten years, and for the most part, the high school and styles of teaching occurring within them have not. If you walk into any high school classroom today the students in the class will have more technological power in their pockets than the teachers have at their disposal. Those students will probably have more interactions with that computer through the digital world than they will have with their peers in the natural world. The tipping point of wireless cellular and computing technologies has created a new paradigm in modern education that every teacher will have to incorporate into their learning plans if they want to reach the students of today (Tomorrow already came and went, some of us were sleeping). The high demand for these devices has created a scenario where the entire world's modern population will have more computing power in their shirt pocket than the United States government had in an entire warehouse twenty years ago. With that power...comes a lot of opportunity for an educator to enter the household and lives of their students than ever before. The nations education systems should begin to invest in placing mobile handheld and connected computer devices into the hands of every child at no expense, especially when considering the connectivity expense issues of other not so manageable devices. These devices are easier to manage, connect, upgrade, and recycle than the dinosaurs we are still using.
The modern teacher can drop a single line on the web and simultaneously assign homework to every child in their course, and their parents. Websites are intuitive but slower than the many versions of digital text messaging that is occurring on a daily basis, therefore, the teachers should be having students develop websites for their class. Course work should be completed in the digital world and the relentless use of our number one renewable resource (trees) should become a thing of the past in our classroom assignments. The modern student can be given a six month lease on a digital text book copy, for the duration of the course, allowing the student to carry every book in their arsenal without the need of backpack. Students can highlight text and take notes, which could then be linked to their personal web accounts for easy access in a class-notes section of their on-line interface.
Sample Lesson Plan
The grasshopper investigation is a partial unit plan designed by Scott McMillan, for EDT 514, around the concept of embedded technology in science teaching. Technology in science tends to be a blend of the modern social digital world with that of the very technologically specific scientific world. Task-specific technologies blending with the new social technologies are creating an exciting time for scientists today. The ability to share research finds and discoveries with scientific peers and bounce ideas off fellow researchers, while on-site, has created a very well connected scientific community. The grasshopper investigation's goal is to increase students' awareness of these various technologies that are re-shaping the face of inquiry and investigation all while incorporating the concepts of natural selection.
Table of Contents
TPACK in High School Science Education
Introduction to TPACK in the High School Setting
The modern teacher can drop a single line on the web and simultaneously assign homework to every child in their course, and their parents. Websites are intuitive but slower than the many versions of digital text messaging that is occurring on a daily basis, therefore, the teachers should be having students develop websites for their class. Course work should be completed in the digital world and the relentless use of our number one renewable resource (trees) should become a thing of the past in our classroom assignments. The modern student can be given a six month lease on a digital text book copy, for the duration of the course, allowing the student to carry every book in their arsenal without the need of backpack. Students can highlight text and take notes, which could then be linked to their personal web accounts for easy access in a class-notes section of their on-line interface.
Sample Lesson Plan
The grasshopper investigation is a partial unit plan designed by Scott McMillan, for EDT 514, around the concept of embedded technology in science teaching. Technology in science tends to be a blend of the modern social digital world with that of the very technologically specific scientific world. Task-specific technologies blending with the new social technologies are creating an exciting time for scientists today. The ability to share research finds and discoveries with scientific peers and bounce ideas off fellow researchers, while on-site, has created a very well connected scientific community. The grasshopper investigation's goal is to increase students' awareness of these various technologies that are re-shaping the face of inquiry and investigation all while incorporating the concepts of natural selection.
Resources
University of Colorado at Bolder Interactive http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/gas-properties